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we deserve to feel better in our own skinTue, 29 Mar 2011 18:40:41 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Book Review: Sex at Dawn Challenges Institution of Monogamy by Examining Human Prehistory by Angelahttps://therapyforachangingworld.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/book-review-sex-at-dawn/#comment-48
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:40:41 +0000http://therapyforachangingworld.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-48Haven’t read “The Female Brain”, may have to backburner it for a while, since I’ve currently got out “Delusions of Gender” and “The Art Instinct”. And I still mean to finish “A Language Older than Words”, it just keeps making me cry.
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Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:48:30 +0000http://therapyforachangingworld.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-47On the topic of good creative nonfiction: have you read *The Female Brain* by Louann Brizendine?

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Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:04:01 +0000http://therapyforachangingworld.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-46I don’t know exactly how to describe it, but I’ve read non-fiction books that manage to walk the line of being engaging without slipping over into either the short-attention-span-theatre of punchy journalistic writing or wallowing in eye-glazing dryness. True, I read more non-fiction than fiction these days, but even I have only so much tolerance for dry or overly dense academic writing. I found Sarah Blaffer Hrdy readable enough, for instance, but not Donna Haraway.

I appreciate that Ryan referenced the greater levels of openness in gay male relationships under the B&N Q&A. Makes me hope that maybe we’ll see an queer-evo theory sequel to Sex at Dawn, with foreword or co-writing credit by Dan Savage. 🙂

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Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:37:43 +0000http://therapyforachangingworld.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-45Angela,
You make a lot of salient points. I wonder, though, if they refrained from the punchier writing style if the book as a whole would have suffered from dryness, lengthy that it was. I completely agree on the homosexuality front. I’m going to dig around and see if I can find the authors’ answer to that critique, which I’m sure has to have been made by someone else at this point. I’m also going to get on looking into more resources of the evolutionary psychology of homosexuality. As the idea of homosexuality as evolutionarily/historically recognized behavior is made as a counterargument to the “homosexuality is not natural” argument quite frequently, I know it’s got to be out there. I’m thinking that primatology would be a good first place to look…
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Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:45:49 +0000http://therapyforachangingworld.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-44I just finished reading it, and while I was intrigued by a lot of points made, I have some minor critiques.

Like, I thought the writing style in some places was better suited to shorter punchier journalistic articles, got to be too much to read over several pages.

Also, I’d have liked to see more detail on homosexuality (in primates in general, and humans in specific) other than a few tossed-off statements that amounted to “yeah, it’s natural, serves the same bonding function as hetero-sex” and “since queer rights are making such strides today, why not poly rights, eh, eh?”

It talked a lot about sexually open societies, but only in regards to opposite-sex promiscuity, not what they think of same-sex relations (though Aaron seems to recall from reading Sexual Life of Savages that the Trobiand Islanders were anti-gay sex).

Any recommendations for evo psych that spends equal time (or for balance, full-time) on queer sex?

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Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:58:03 +0000http://therapyforachangingworld.wordpress.com/?p=129#comment-36Jenny,
You are quite welcome! I am so excited to become acquainted with your writing. I just ordered your book *Open* and can’t wait to review it here. I’m a therapist working with a lot of couples currently or having at one time been in open marriages, and there cannot be enough resources to help people.
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Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:29:56 +0000http://therapyforachangingworld.wordpress.com/?p=129#comment-33Hi-

Thank you so much for this. I really appreciate your support. It is a mad, mad world out there and it’s encouraging to know that I am not alone in fighting the good fight!

Best,
Jenny

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Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:48:34 +0000http://therapyforachangingworld.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-32That’s a great interview! Thanks for that link. =)

I sent a quick note to the authors and asked for a quick fact-check of the article, especially since I had claimed they were married. I got this in return (I have since corrected the bit about which Darwin was opposed to the phallic mushrooms):

Hi Lia,

Thanks for your very thoughtful review. The only error I spotted was that Etty was Darwin’s daughter, not sister (mushrooms). I’ll post a link on our Facebook and Twitter feeds.

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Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:36:02 +0000http://therapyforachangingworld.wordpress.com/?p=104#comment-31Hi there. Did you mean this blog entry or one of the links? I was able to open this blog post in firefox 5.0…
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Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:13:34 +0000http://therapyforachangingworld.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-30Thanks for the review. I read the book last year and have been recommending it to everyone! I did not realize that they were married, but you’re right: http://www.faboverfifty.com/intheknow/our-health/case-sleeping-around
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